Resources for Close Reading in Science

We are excited to share the 41 new Close Reading/Text Dependent Questions sets that were developed by a team of 18 K-12 science teachers and the Science Department staff with guidance and support from David Pook, one of the collaborators of the CCSS. This team identified complex non-fiction text passages and developed text-dependent questions to support close reading assignments for each grade level. Although we are continuing to develop lesson guides to support the use of these materials in classrooms, we chose to post these materials as they become ready and encourage you to try them out and provide us with feedback. If you have suggestions of good non-fiction text passages, books, or articles, please share them with us!

Many thanks to the teachers who worked with us to create these assignments; we ﻿never﻿ could have done it without you!

David Pook and members of the BPS Science Department Team -- Dean Martin, Erin Hashimoto-Martell, Bev Nadeau, Suzanne Gill, Jonathan McLaughlin, and Pam Pelletier -- worked with these teachers to develop Close Reading materials for classroom use.

Close Reading: Texts, Questions, and How-to Guides

We would like to thank our curriculum partners -- FOSS at the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC-Berkeley and their partner, Delta Education and STC from Smithsonian Science Education and their partner, Carolina Biological --who have generously given us permission to include the text selection with the TDQs that we have developed. We thank them both! We hope that other publishers allow us to do the same, but for now, we will include either page references or weblinks.Let us know if you have Close Reading/TDQ assignments to share with others!!

Click on the links below to download the text selections (or citations for the text), text dependent questions, and information and how-to guides for complex text, close reading and TDQs.